Now that we’re firmly into February, investors appear to be breathing easier over that impending correction of doom. Both the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 logged the strongest weekly gains since December last week. What’s it all mean? Maybe nothing or maybe investors are all just prisoners of their own device.

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